Cleaning Solar Cells
Photo by Christoph Kortmann
created 10/20/2001
submitted 8/27/2002 12:55:58 AM
The picture shows a solar panel with Gochermann cell lamination. It can be seen that there
is a lot of contamination due to spraying the array with regular tap water and shipping.
In the middle of the photo, there's a small
strip which seems to be clean. This was achieved by applying a special 3M tape to the surface. The tape does not damage the pyramid structure.
Several other methods were tested but found not
useful. During the preparations for WSC 2001, the Mad Dog team spend almost a week cleaning with very good results.

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